{"id":1647,"date":"2019-01-14T02:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2018-12-30T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:51:16","slug":"book-review-underworld-by-catherine-macphail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Underworld by Catherine Macphail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-2.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/download-2-49x74.jpg 49w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a>Bloomsbury USA Children&#8217;s Books, July, 2005<br \/>\nISBN: 1582349975<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pages: 250<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>Underworld\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0looks on its cover that this some sort of underground monster horror book, however the true terror is more about what happens when a group of students trapped in a series of caves with no adults.\u00a0 Before going into the caves the students are told about the legend of a\u00a0 great monster worm that inhabit the cave.\u00a0\u00a0 Once in the cave there is\u00a0 an earthquake, and the student are\u00a0 trapped\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and their teacher is knocked unconscious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The group of students consists of Axel, the school bully, Liam his sidekick, Zesh the hero, Fiona the rebel, and Angie the friendly overweight girl.\u00a0\u00a0 The real story is about the group dynamic with in the cave once the teacher is unconscious that had a touch of Lord of the Flies feel to it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you are looking for a giant monster book you need to look elsewhere. However if you want a good read about what happens to a group of students trapped inside a labyrinth of cave with the haunted by the story about a giant worm that makes every sound seem like impending doom\u00a0 and every dark place suspect then this is the book for you. \u00a0 Contains minimal non lethal school violence.\u00a0 Note: This book has nothing to do with the popular vampire\/werewolf movie with the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomsbury USA Children&#8217;s Books, July, 2005 ISBN: 1582349975 Pages: 250 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Underworld\u00a0\u00a0looks on its cover that this some sort of underground monster horror book, however the true terror is more about what happens when a group of students trapped in a series of caves with no adults.\u00a0 Before going into the caves the students are told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,119,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-horror","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}